Politics of the Crypt

Halloween has come and gone, but in the run-up to this most recent All Hallow’s Eve, the folks at Saturday Night Live captured one of the more terrifying specters haunting American politics today: our rickety, teetering, empty-eyed, almost-81-year-old president, a man who increasingly resembles a half-hearted crypt-keeper with each passing tick of the clock.

Standing in a fake Oval Office, SNL’s imitation Joe Biden spooked viewers with a shaky, spine-tingling attempt to climb a ladder in order to hang Halloween decorations — “Relax! I’m not gonna fall!” — while helpfully noting that “a lot of my closest friends are ghosts.” Our friendly faux Biden then gave a warm shout-out to the Grim Reaper, a Halloween icon “who I physically fight every single day.”